All That Happened

Authors: Surfatial

Keywords: Anxiety, Planets, Solar System, Observation, Organism

First 100 words: Prelude First you walk out of your door with the large irregular container which your neighbours always suspected you of hiding a smelly object in. It won't be easy by any stretch obviously, but you will pick yourself up and do it. You will set aside the taunts, the imagined slights, the implications of outsider-hood, the insinuations of otherness. Trust is a word from another time in the distant past, and you naturally lack any belief in functioning selves and systems. You are an other, there's no escaping that, ten thousand light years away. Not every gravitational pattern is escapable…